There comes a time when one needs to accept Weather in the Tropics is beyond our understanding & even with the best available tools it may be difficult to give a clear update on what can happen a couple of days down the line. During those times it may make sense to accept the ever…
The last couple of days should have come as a welcome relief for people from North Tamil Nadu as drier Northerly winds influenced Weather over places like Chennai & surrounding. At the time of this post it is nearly 48 hours since Chennai received a noteworthy spell of rains. Though weather models indicate rains to…
Since the Onset on October 26th Northeast Monsoon has been behaving like a Fast Bowler who plans his Yorker / Bouncer once an over. Nov. 7th, Nov. 11, Nov. 18th all were well bowled Yorkers which pretty much uprooted the stumps across many places not only in Coastal Tamil Nadu but also Interior TN, South…
The last week’s rainfall episode triggered a flooding event across many parts of Peninsular India which was not seen in many decades. Rivers like Palar saw inflows cross 1.5 lakh cusecs which has possibly never happened in living memory for most people living on its bank. Similarly Then Pennai saw nearly 75000 cusecs which once…
Weather events many a times are decided by fine margins particularly over tropical areas like the Indian Sub Continent and while using Global Models were grid resolutions are lower. The last few days once again reiterate this, while many were upset about the “Unnecessary Hypes about heavy rains and Red Alerts for Chennai on Thursday”…
